Censoring a Number 1046
Rudd-O writes "Months after successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, an unprecedented campaign of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices by the MPAA, has hit the Net. For example Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?" How long before the magic 16-hex-pairs number shows up in a comment here?
Remember De-CSS? (Score:5, Interesting)
Remember De-CSS?
Re:Not very long... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Ah My! (Score:5, Interesting)
There's a saying in the (physical) lock business. I am not in it, so I may have the wording wrong, but the gist is:
In the safe business, safes are rated by how long they take to crack. They never claim to be uncrackable.
Trying to make DRM better than locks and safes in the real world is futile.
Tag (Score:5, Interesting)
How long must a number be to be copyrightable? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Google Mirror (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... (Score:5, Interesting)
13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,64
or this one
1001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000
Re:Not very long... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:More Information at chillingeffects.org (Score:2, Interesting)
Add Fark to the fearful (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... (Score:2, Interesting)
This guy used it in his URL and got a DMCA takedown notice [chillingeffects.org].
Oh the irony
It's all Bill's Fault (Score:5, Interesting)
Microsoft is a cancer that attaches itself in an security sense to everything it touches...
Re:Not very long... (Score:5, Interesting)
A) A textbook implementation of the AACS protocol and
B) Hex strings
Yeah, America rules.
Re:Not very long... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:This is (now) a famous number-theory integer! (Score:1, Interesting)
The number is not out of danger yet... (Score:1, Interesting)
Just look: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&w
Re:This is actually my HOPE for the future (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... (Score:3, Interesting)
As opposed to Dan Brown novels, where the whole book sucks? Thanks, but I think I'll stick with Stephenson. Everyone says he writes horrible endings, and horrible sex scenes, but I just don't see it. Maybe I'm too much of a fanboy (especially after "In the Beginning was the Command Line"), but I'll paraphrase a famous quote: "I may not know literature, but I know what I like."
I wouldn't have modded you down. I know that, like Linux, Stephenson's writings aren't for everyone. They make me happy, so I keep buying them. Dan Brown's stuff bores and infuriates me, so I sell back to the used book store and don't buy anything more of his.
The key has a website (Score:1, Interesting)
So, logically.. (Score:5, Interesting)
Encoded version (Score:3, Interesting)
The information is: A3 53 BB A8 37 DE 49 F1 72 EB FC 6F C9 FC 22 6A
Re:Kevin Rose Response (Score:3, Interesting)
eCard of that Number - Send to Geeks (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... (Score:5, Interesting)
http://09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com
Ping 'em (Score:2, Interesting)
Hmm, shame MAC addresses are too short.
Arbitrary URL strings?
The possibilities are endless.
Re:Kevin Rose Response (Score:3, Interesting)
So who's going to tell him that they were already abiding by the law? A randomly-generated number is not protected under any known intellectual property law.
Wuss.
Re:Not very long... (Score:5, Interesting)
Or, an even better idea...
If you treat the hex string as a sequence of unsigned big-endian U16s, and then look up the sequence of corresponding words in OSX's password dictionary, you get "edit view phosphor beautified sorcerous crushed kneader deadline".
Now what? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Bittorrent (Score:4, Interesting)
Digg (Score:5, Interesting)
Put the number in your user agent (Score:5, Interesting)
For extra fun, you can put the number in your user agent string. Since plenty of server logs are public, the number will be in lots of log files all over the place.
In Firefox, you can append a comment to the default existing user-agent string, by visiting about:config and adding a string property with the key general.useragent.extra.firefoxComment
Whatever you put in there is added to the end of the user agent string that is sent with every request your browser makes. Mine is now:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070426 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Version 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640
Thanks to ludwik on digg for the suggestion.
Back to Slashdot... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:The T-Shirt (Score:3, Interesting)
Here on Slashdot, we've got one story. And it's got information.
Re:The T-Shirt (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Not very long... - Censorship (Score:1, Interesting)
The Song (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Bittorrent (Score:2, Interesting)
Come on people, seed! (Score:3, Interesting)